185: Chapter 185 Your Dad is Back

The next second, Yi Chang's voice cut in.

Her breathing was a bit ragged, but her speech remained clear.

"Lord."

"The bottom deck is in a riot."

Chen Chen raised his hand, and everyone in the carriage stopped.

Yi Chang continued her report.

"The remnants of The Three Major Alliances are inciting the refugees; the scale exceeds thirty thousand."

"They are destroying the lower-level life support pipelines, trying to force us to open the upper-level zone."

"Currently, Old Ammunition Depot No. 7 has fallen, and Maintenance Level No. 2 is on fire."

Shen Wanbing's expression changed, and she immediately pulled up the remote data.

"The life support system load is rising."

"Do they really dare to mess with the oxygen circulation?"

A short, sharp sound of metal clashing came from Yi Chang's end.

It sounded like she was handling it while walking.

"I've already killed a batch."

"But there are too many people, and the bottom deck corridors are narrow."

"Jiang Yanxue is clearing Gate No. 3."

In the background, Jiang Yanxue's wild laughter could be heard clearly.

"Chen Chen!"

"If you don't come back soon, I'm going to slice these thirty thousand people into meat strips and feed them to the Aberrations outside the city!"

Another burst of screams followed.

Jiang Yanxue continued shouting.

"Don't run!"

"Didn't you just shout about wanting fairness?"

"The blade is also fair, one strike for each person!"

Shen Wanxing was so scared she shrank back into Chen Chen's arms.

"Sister Jiang is so fierce..."

Su Xiaoqi immediately stood up.

"Brother, I'll go help!"

"I can lift up the troublemakers and slam them!"

Jiang Jiuyou had already pushed the ascent power to the max.

"Depth: 1,100 meters."

"Ascending at full speed, it will take another four minutes to break the surface."

Mio reminded her.

"The hull was under high pressure just now, we can't push it into the red line again—"

Jiang Jiuyou pushed the propulsion directly into the danger zone.

"Now is not the time for maintenance."

Mio almost jumped up.

"That's my thruster!"

Chen Chen pressed the communication key.

"Yi Chang."

"Leave a few of the ringleaders alive."

There was a half-second pause on the other end of the communication.

Yi Chang's voice lowered slightly.

"Understood."

Chen Chen added one more thing.

"Jiang Yanxue, did you hear that?"

The sound of a blade sheathing came from Jiang Yanxue's side.

"Heard it."

"Leave the head, or leave half the body?"

"As long as they can talk, it's fine."

"Got it."

Chen Chen hung up the communication, and the temperature in the carriage spiked.

The aura brought by his 217 constitution made the air feel stifling.

Blood Rose stopped smiling and stood up straight.

Shen Wanbing projected the structure of the bottom deck.

"The riot of thirty thousand people is just the surface."

"They chose their points very accurately."

"Old Ammunition Depot No. 7, Maintenance Level No. 2, and Gate No. 3 are all nodes leading to the upper level."

Jiang Jiuyou added coldly.

"Someone drew the route for them."

Mio also pulled up the old internal map of the Sea Scale.

"Someone who understands the ship's structure has infiltrated the bottom deck."

Shen Wanbing's finger landed on a red dot.

"There is one more problem."

"They aren't just trying to seize the upper level."

"If the life support system is destroyed, the 160,000 people on the lower level will all suffer from oxygen deprivation simultaneously."

"At that point, Yi Chang will have no choice but to open the gates to relieve the pressure."

Blood Rose narrowed her eyes.

"Forcing the palace?"

Jiang Jiuyou sneered.

"They want to use over a hundred thousand people as bargaining chips."

Chen Chen looked at the red dot on the projection.

"Then we'll shatter the chips."

Shen Wanxing looked up at him and spoke in a low voice.

"Will many people die?"

Chen Chen looked down.

"The ones causing trouble will die."

"Those who don't cause trouble will live."

Shen Wanxing clutched her blanket and didn't say anything more.

Su Xiaoqi slung her roasted meat bag behind her back and nodded seriously.

"Then I will only hit the ones making trouble."

The Sea Scale continued to ascend.

[Depth: 500 meters.]

[Depth: 200 meters.]

[Depth: 50 meters.]

Jiang Jiuyou pressed both hands onto the control console.

"Prepare to break the surface."

Mio gritted her teeth.

"The thruster is at 120% overheating, you have to fix it for me when we get back!"

"Find Copper Hammer."

"He will smash my ship!"

"Then have Yi Chang approve the budget."

Mio was choked into silence.

Boom!

The Sea Scale broke through the surface of the Black Sea.

A large amount of seawater rolled off both sides of the hull.

Below the Floating City, outside the black fog suppression zone, there were still remaining refugees crying and screaming.

And at the bottom of the city, the bottom deck area was already lit up with large areas of red alarms.

Firelight flickered in the direction of Gate No. 3.

Explosions rang out one after another.

Chen Chen stood up and picked up the Rift-Sky Gravity Ship-Slayer Blade.

"Jiang Jiuyou, press the Sea Scale against the outside of the bottom deck."

Jiang Jiuyou didn't ask any more questions.

"Ram it?"

Chen Chen buttoned his jacket.

"Face-to-face."

"I want them to hear the sound of the gun barrels rotating first."

As soon as Chen Chen finished his sentence, Jiang Jiuyou pushed the Sea Scale into a low-altitude hover.

At the bottom of the city, the black fog rolled against the outer shield.

In front of Gate No. 3 on the bottom deck, it had become a complete mess.

After the oxygen concentration dropped to the red line, the people in the bottom deck first coughed, then screamed, and finally, incited by a few remnants of The Three Major Alliances, all 160,000 people were swept up in the panic.

"Chen Chen is dead!"

"He's not coming back!"

"There's still air in the upper level! There's still clean water! Why should we be left down here waiting to die!"

"Charge up! Kill anyone who blocks us!"

In front of Gate No. 3, over thirty thousand people were crowded together, holding iron pipes, dismantled bed boards, and gun parts, crazily slamming into the upper-level passage.

The people at the very front were already crawling forward over corpses.

Inside the gate, Yi Chang's lower body had already transformed into a silver snake tail.

The black uniform she was wearing had several tears in it, her snow-white neck and shoulders were stained with blood, and fine silver scales extended from her waist down to the base of her snake tail.

Her high heels were still on the ground.

She held the city defense data pad in one hand and a high-voltage electric whip in the other.

Crack!

The electric whip lashed out.

The chest of the burly man charging at the front exploded on the spot, and he flew backward into the crowd, knocking down a whole group.

Yi Chang's voice was cold.

"Those who cross the line, die."

The crowd shrank back briefly.

But the people behind were still pushing.

"Don't be afraid of her!"

"She's just a snake girl!"

"Chen Chen is already dead, she can't last much longer!"

A man wearing an armband of The Three Major Alliances stood on a discarded ammunition box, roaring into a megaphone.

"Charging through is the only way to live!"

"The women, food, and hot water in the upper level will all be ours!"

Before he could finish shouting, a dark red shadow swept out from the side of the gate.

Jiang Yanxue landed on the ammunition box.

The Shadow Instant-Kill Blade pressed down.

The man's head flew off, the megaphone was still rolling on the ground, and a harsh electric sound came from it.

Jiang Yanxue kicked the corpse into the crowd, her face splattered with blood, her killing intent terrifyingly heavy.

"Who's next to shout?"

No one answered.

But the next second, someone behind the crowd opened fire.

Bang, bang, bang!

Bullets hit the edge of the gate, sparks flying everywhere.

A few refugees who were being squeezed until they were almost suffocating went completely mad, crying as they rushed forward.

"I don't want to die!"

"Let me go up!"

"My child can't breathe anymore!"

Jiang Yanxue's blade paused for a moment.

Yi Chang spoke immediately.

"Yanxue, don't stop."

Jiang Yanxue gritted her teeth.

"I know."

She raised her leg and kicked away a woman who was pushing forward while holding a child, not dealing a lethal blow, just kicking her back outside the safety line.

But the next batch of rioters had already taken advantage of the gap to rush up.

Yi Chang swept her snake tail horizontally, the silver tip sending five or six people flying; the electric whip fell again, and another circle of people collapsed in front of the gate.

Her breathing became heavier.

The air in the bottom deck was already poor.

Coupled with the continuous fighting, her snake scales began to lose their luster.

Iron Wall's voice was hoarse from shouting over the communication.

"The fire on Maintenance Level No. 2 hasn't been extinguished yet!"

"People are grabbing oxygen tanks over at Old Ammunition Depot No. 7!"

"Yi Chang, hold on for another three minutes! The boss is almost here!"

Yi Chang shook the flesh off her electric whip.

"Tell him to hurry."

As soon as she finished speaking.

A loud noise came from the structural layer above Gate No. 3.

Boom—

The entire bottom deck shook violently.

The rioting crowd was shaken until they couldn't stand steady.

Someone looked up, their face pale.

"What was that sound?"

"Did it collapse above?"

"Did the black fog get in?"

A second roar followed immediately.

At the bottom of the Floating City, the massive bow of the Sea Scale tore through the black fog and forced itself against the lower level of the composite fortress.

Twelve dark silver mechanical arms extended from the dock, precisely locking onto the hull interface.

Click, click, click!

A series of locking sounds spread throughout the bottom deck.

Mio's voice exploded from the broadcast.

"Sea Scale reconnected!"

"Outer sealing of the bottom deck complete!"

"Whoever smashes my pipelines again, I'll send them to take a bath in the sea!"

The rioters were stunned.

The remnants of The Three Major Alliances were also stunned.

The people who were just shouting that Chen Chen was dead felt the blood drain from their faces bit by bit.

Yi Chang looked up, her tense shoulders finally relaxing slightly.

Jiang Yanxue licked the blood from her lips, smiling fiercely.

"It's over."

"Your daddy is back."